LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of An Ode to Bahá'u'lláh by Nabíl-i-A'zam (Mullá Muhammad Zarandí). This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010. Mullá Muhammad-i-Zarandí (29 July 1831 – 1892), more commonly known as Nabíl-i-A`zam or Nabíl-i-Zarandí, was an eminent Bahá'í historian during the time of Bahá'u'lláh, and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh. He is most famous for authoring The Dawn-breakers, which stands out as one of the most...
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LibriVox recording of Told Under a White Oak Tree, by Bill Hart's Pinto Pony and William S. Hart. Read by Chuck Williamson. An inside look into the wild world of silent movie cowboy William S. Hart... as narrated by his horse! This is a fascinating (if fictionalized) behind-the-scenes look into the wild, action-packed world of a Hollywood cowboy and stuntman. TOLD UNDER A WHITE OAK TREE is a charming children's book that not only gives us a fanciful account of Hart's career as Hollywood's...
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LibriVox recording of History of the Inquisition of Spain Volume 1, by Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909). The first volume of Lea’s monumental work on the Inquisition of Spain, covering its origin and establishment and its relations with the state. Also included are appendices listing Tribunals, Inquisitors-General, and Spanish coinage. (Summary by Ruth Golding) For details of readers and the source text, please visit the LibriVox catalogue page for this item. For more free audio books or to...
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LibriVox recording of Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers by Reuben Gold Thwaites. This volume is the record of six hundred miles of canoeing experiences on historic waterways in Wisconsin and Illinois during the summer of 1887. There has been no attempt at exaggeration, to color its homely incidents, or to picture charms where none exist. It is intended to be a simple, truthful narrative of what was seen and done upon a series of novel...
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LibriVox recording of Hymns to the Night, by Novalis. Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA. Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philosopher and early Romantic poet whose pen name was simply “Novalis”. The work alternates poetry and prose, exploring a personal mythology of darkness and light, but it is also a free-associative chronicle of a young man rationalizing the untimely death of his fiancé....
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LibriVox recording of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, edited by Fujiwara no Teika. Read by kaseumin. Hyakunin isshu (百人一首) is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. (Summary from Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to...
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LibriVox recording of Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott. Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard Cœur-de-Lion at the Crusades, it's another ripping historical yarn by Scott (summary by annise) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox...
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LibriVox recording of The Jacket, by Jack London. Read by Barry Eads. This book by Jack London was published under the name of "The Jacket" in the UK and "The Star Rover" in the US. A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced...
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Librivox recording of Japanese Fairy Tales , by Yei Theodora Ozaki. First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: "...in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them for the children of the West." In part, the project was the result of a suggestion made by her friend...
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Librivox recording of Jazz Fantasia, by Carl Sandburg. As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, "Jazz Fantasia" was a special challenge because it isn't just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is central, but not so clearly defined, so we had to play around and improvise. Every reading is unique! (Summary by LauraFox) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for...
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LibriVox recording of The Ideal Bartender by Tom Bullock, in the public domain. The LibriVox catalog page for this work lists the LibriVox readers. Tom Bullock was a well-known bartender at the St. Louis Country Club. His skills as a bartender were so remarkable that a libel suit hinged on the excellence of his drinks. In The Ideal Bartender, Tom collects some of his best known beverage recipes. (Summary by Kirsten Ferreri). For more information on LibriVox, or to volunteer, please see:...
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LibriVox recording of The Idiot, by John Kendrick Bangs, Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012). The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you’re beneath contempt you can say what you please. – This is the first of John Kendrick Bangs' “Idiot” books and was published by Harper and Brothers in 1895....
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LibriVox recording of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Part 01 and 02)Read by Martin Geeson The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg community he enters is far from receptive to an innocent like himself, despite some early successes and relentless pursuit by grotesque fortune-hunters. His naive...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of In a Garden by Amy Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 14th, 2007. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/in-a-garden-by-amy-lowell/ . For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B (10MB)
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LibriVox recording of Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit , by Baltasar Gracián. Read by Redaer. Richtiges Leben und Regeln dazu. Wertvoll und hilfreich. (Summary by redaer) For further information, including links to M4B audio book, online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats or languages (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Hörbuch Teil 1...
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LibriVox recording of In Defense of Harriet Shelley, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman. Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the "real" Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's "Life of Shelley". Even though, as Twain writes, "Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it, but is otherwise worshipfully noble and beautiful", Twain shows how Shelley's extra-marital conduct might easily be seen to have been the cause of his wife...
Topics: Librivox, audiobook, Samuel Clemens, essays, Percy Bysshe Shelley, suicide
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LibriVox recording of The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas , by Thomas Mayne Reed. The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah! About him there is something to cause both—something weird—something wanting! By heavens! it is the head! (Excerpt from the Prologue) The Headless Horseman is a novel by Mayne...
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LibriVox Aufnahme von "Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat", von Johanna Spyri. Gelesen von Stephanie König. Heidi ist zurückgekehrt zum Alpöhi. Der ist darüber so froh, dass er nach Jahrzehnten zum ersten Mal wieder die Kirche im Dörfli aufsucht, worüber die Dorfbewohner erstaunt, aber erfreut sind. Er setzt sein Haus im Dörfli wieder instand, damit Heidi den Winter dort verbringen und die Schule besuchen kann. Heidi überzeugt den Geissenpeter, lesen zu lernen. Im...
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LibriVox recording of Die Helden des Dampfes, by Karl May. Read in German by Dirk Weber. Der dreiteilige Aufsatz über Die Helden des Dampfes wurde mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit von Karl May verfaßt und veröffentlicht in Schacht und Hütte. Blätter zur Unterhaltung und Belehrung für Berg- Hütten- und Maschinenarbeiter. (Dresden 1875). Eine Zeitschrift, die 1875/76 etwa ein Jahr lang von Karl May als Redakteur konzipiert und betreut wurde und im Verlag H. G. Münchmeyer erschien. Der Aufsatz...
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LibriVox recording of Herodotus' "Histories" read by LibriVox volunteers. The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus traveled extensively around the ancient world, conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book. The rise of the Persian Empire is chronicled, and the...
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LibriVox recording of The Highest Treason, by Randall Garrett. Read by Lee Elliott. Set in a future in which humanity’s dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, humanity has straight-jacketed itself into the only social system which could make this possible. Class differentiation is entirely horizontal rather than vertical and no matter what one’s chosen field, all advancement is based solely on seniority rather than ability....
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LibriVox recording of Hindle Wakes, by Stanley Houghton, with accompanying essay by Emma Goldman. Read by volunteer readers. Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in Blackpool and the two go off for what they believe to be secret fling in Llandudno. But after the death of Fanny's friend, Mary, in a pleasure boat accident at Blackpool the secret is revealed and the the two families are thrown into...
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LibriVox recording of The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker. Read by Roger Melin. The Jewel of Seven Stars (also published under the name: The Jewel of the Seven Stars) is a horror novel by Bram Stoker first published in 1903. The story is about an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. (Summary by Wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox...
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LibriVox recording of Jill the Reckless by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Don W. Jenkins. Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a smile, in which there is just a tinge of recklessness, she refuses to be beaten and turns to face the world. Instead she went to New York and became a member of the chorus of "The Rose of America," and Mr. Wodehouse is enabled to lift the curtain of the musical...
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LibriVox recording of The Journey of Coronado, by Pedro de Castañeda. Read by Sue Anderson. In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards found no riches—instead, the Grand Canyon, the vast buffalo plains, and the pueblos of Zuni and Pecos. The narratives in this volume are all first-hand accounts of the Coronado expedition--raw, gripping, spirit-stirring--translated from the Spanish by George Parker Winship....
Topics: librivox, audiobook, Southwest, Description, travel, Pueblos, history, explorers
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LibriVox recording of The Joyful Wisdom, by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Oscar Levy. Read by TimSC. "The Joyful Wisdom," written in 1882, just before "Zarathustra," is rightly judged to be one of Nietzsche's best books. Here the essentially grave and masculine face of the poet-philosopher is seen to light up and suddenly break into a delightful smile. The warmth and kindness that beam from his features will astonish those hasty psychologists who have never divined that...
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LibriVox recording of KINDNESS, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER. Read by Dave7. Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford scholar and Anglican priest since 1839, Faber converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845 following his mentor John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. During the 1850s, Father Faber published several popular spiritual books, which have been treasured by Catholics ever since: All for Jesus,...
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Librivox recording of King Arthur and His Knights , by Maude L. Radford. A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian legends about Sir Lancelot, the Knights of the Round Table, Queen Guinevere, and the search for the Holy Grail. (Summary by Robin Cotter) Read by Robin Cotter. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
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LibriVox recording of John Sherman and Dhoya, by William Butler Yeats. Read by David Wales. In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de plume for this work, is the name of a male faerie in Irish mythology that is known for seducing human women. (Summary by wikipedia) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available),...
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LibriVox recording of Jordens Inre by Otto Witt (in Swedish). Read by Petra. This is a short Swedish science fiction story from 1912 about science in Russia. I Jordens inre får vi ta del av en av Otto Witts framtidsvisioner, utarbetad innan Första Världskriget -- det hela utspelar sig i ett Ryssland där Tsaren inte tvingas abdikera. Genom sina vetenskapliga upptäckter lyckas den egensinnige huvudpersonen stärka nationen samtidigt som han får anledning att förolämpa övriga...
Topics: LIbrivox, science fiction, Swedish, svenska, climate, Russia
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LibriVox recording of Jo's Boys, by Louisa May Alcott. Jo's Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo's "children", now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. All three books - although fiction - are highly autobiographical and describe characters that were really in Alcott's life. This book contains romance as the childhood playmates become flirtatious young men and women. The characters are growing up, going out into...
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LibriVox recording of Der kleine Lord, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Read in German by Elli. Cedric Errol, ein kleiner Junge aus New York, wird von seinem kaltherzigen englischen Großvater, dem Earl of Dorincourt, trotz der standeswidrigen Ehe seines verstorbenen Vaters, als einziger Nachfolger für den Grafentitel bei sich aufgenommen und aufgezogen. Seine Mutter, eine bürgerliche Näherin, darf das Anwesen aufgrund von Voreingenommenheit und Standesdünkel des Earls nicht betreten. Nach und...
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LibriVox luisterboek van De kleine zielen, van Louis Couperus. Gelezen door Anna Simon. De kleine zielen is het eerste gedeelte van de romancyclus De boeken der kleine zielen , die zich afspeelt in Den Haag. Fragmenten uit een recensie ten tijde van de eerste druk (Elsevier, 1902): deze Haagse roman geeft van de Hagenaars een weinig lieflijke portrettengalerij. Toch geloven wij niet dat speciaal Haagse ondeugden en Haagse kleinzieligheden worden getekend in deze roman. Mensen van elders moeten...
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A beautifully illustrated children's picture book. Listen to the narration while you view (on gutenberg.org ) a variety of delightful animals doing strange things such as the kangaroo who tried to paint the roses blue. This is a follow up to Johnny Crow's Garden. (Summary by Jim) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. Download M4B (2MB)
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LibriVox recording of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read by Kristin Hughes. After hearing Mr. Enfield's account of a distressing event involving Edward Hyde, the heir of his friend, Henry Jekyll, John Utterson is convinced that Jekyll's relationship with Hyde is built on something sinister. Utterson's concern for his friend is not unfounded but the reasons aren't quite what he, at first, believes. (Summary by Kristin Hughes) For further information,...
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LibriVox recording of Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion, by William Blake. The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an engraved book of 100 pages (only one copy of which was ever fully finished in the colouring), the poem develops and unifies many of the themes Blake had been exploring in earlier works. It is a complex and powerful work, full of dramatic imagery and sublime poetry. You...
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LibriVox recording of The Insurrection in Dublin, by James Stephens. Read by iremonger. The Easter Rising was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain by force of arms. This account was written by Irish novelist James Stephens, who lived and worked in Dublin at the time. (Summary from Wikipedia and iremonger) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds,...
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The poem Liian Paha Sappi by Aaro Hellaakoski, which tells the tale of a child struggling to keep his temper: A TEMPER TOO BAD How it burns my sisu when I have to be quiet If my will would be fulfilled the undertaker would get grain. A little boy has gotten a temper too bad This sisu cannot be put out by even the most snowy Lapland. This project is unusual in that most of the readers are non-Finnish speakers, and learned the poem phonically. (Summary by Juho Fröjd and Catharine Eastman)...
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LibriVox recording of The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 3, by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland. Read by Ann Boulais. The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066. Although by today's standards, it is not seen as a very scholarly work, the Stricklands used many sources that had not...
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LibriVox recording of Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" books, she was also a prolific writer of short stories and poetry. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels...
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LibriVox recording of The Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance. The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made much more difficult by his need to take care of the beautiful Lucia, who has a dark secret of her own. A large number of movies have been based on the books. (Summary by Carolin and Wikipedia) For further information,...
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LibriVox Long Poems Collection 007: a collection of 15 public domain poems longer than 10 minutes in length. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (129MB)
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LibriVox recording of Love and Intrigue, by Friedrich Schiller. Ferdinand is an army major and son of President von Walter, a high-ranking noble in a German duke's court, while Luise Miller is the daughter of a middle-class musician. The couple fall in love with each other, but both their fathers tell them to end their affair. The President instead wants to expand his own influence by marrying Ferdinand to Lady Milford, the duke's mistress, but Ferdinand rebels against his father's plan and...
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Librivox recording of An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Anonymous read by Esther. It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under circumstances which the writer herself would have regarded as all-commanding, urges that they should now be given to the world; and, so far as is possible with a due regard to the claims of privacy, what is here printed...
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LibriVox recording of The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, by Peter Abelard and Heloise. Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. At age 19, and living under her uncle Fulbert's roof, Heloise fell in love with Abelard, who she was studying under. Not only did they have a clandestine affair of a sexual nature, they had a child, Astrolabe, out of wedlock. Discovered by the Fulbert (who was a...
Topics: librivox, audiobook, romance, religion, letters, abelard, heloise
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Love is enough by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2013. William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and English Arts and Crafts Movement. He was instumental in establishing the modern fanasty genre, and thus influenced writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien. Morris also wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, poetry, advice, fantasy, nature, philosophy, romance
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LibriVox recording of Love of Zion, by Abraham Mapu. Read by Omri Lernau. This recording is in Hebrew. Abraham Mapu was born in 1808 near Kaunas, today in Lithuania. He worked as a teacher and later joined the Jewish enlightenment movement. In 1853 he published his first book, Love of Zion , which has been regarded as the first secular novel written in biblical Hebrew. It takes place at the time of the First Temple covering love stories of Yoram, his wives and his children. The book had a...
Topics: Abraham Mapu, Love of Zion, Hebrew, romance, Librivox, audiobook, אהבת ציון, אברהם...
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LibriVox recording of A Little Swiss Sojurn, by William Dean Howells. Read by Nicholas Clifford A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and architecture, but for people and customs, both Swiss and foreign. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, non-fiction, travel, Switzerland
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LibriVox recording of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects , vol. 1, by Giorgio Vasari. The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the...
Topics: LibriVox, Audiobooks, Art, Sculpture, Italian, Biography
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LibriVox recording of The Lone Ranger Rides, by Fran Striker. Read by Roger Melin. Fans of the old radio shows and the TV series The Lone Ranger will recognize the characters in this book - the Lone Ranger, his faithful Indian sidekick Tonto and his trusty horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger Rides, a wonderful western story in itself, also details the origins of why a Texas Ranger would stirke out on his own, wearing a mask at all times, and how he met his companions Tonto and his ever dependable...
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